February Miscellany, Suffolk - 14th February 2011

A round-up of February miscellany: the Yaxley Cherry Tree beer festival, and lots of walks about the fields or the Thornham estate. It also shows Nosher's home-made media player, circa 2004: an old-ish PC motherboard stuffed into a stripped-out CD player (a Yamaha CDX-500E), with a soundcard and a network connection. The CD's control buttons werer actually wired into the keyboard controller and could skip up and down or pause, stop and play, via a custom media client written in Perl. It was quite handy, although the noisy external ATX power supply was a bit of a pain.